2024 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

The new 2024 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 57% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	Score	School
1	4.8	Stanford*
1	4.8	UC-Berkeley*
3	4.4	NYU*
4	4.1	George Washington
4	4.1	Santa Clara
6	3.8	Houston
7	3.7	American*
7	3.7	Georgetown*
9	3.6	Boston University
9	3.6	Duke*
9	3.6	Texas A&M
9	3.6	UC-Irvine*
9	3.6	UCLA*
14	3.5	Cardozo
14	3.5	Chicago-Kent
14	3.5	Michigan*
14	3.5	Penn*
18	3.4	Texas
19	3.3	Columbia*
19	3.3	Harvard*
19	3.3	New Hampshire*
22	3.2	Fordham
22	3.2	George Mason
22	3.2	Northwestern*
22	3.2	San Diego
22	3.2	UC-Davis*
22	3.2	Virginia*
28	3.1	Cornell*
28	3.1	University of Washington*
28	3.1	Vanderbilt*
31	3.0	Emory
31	3.0	Richmond
31	3.0	Suffolk
31	3.0	UC-San Francisco*
31	3.0	Utah
36	2.9	Chicago
36	2.9	Colorado
36	2.9	DePaul
36	2.9	Indiana (Maurer)
36	2.9	Northeastern*
36	2.9	Washington University
42	2.8	Boston College
42	2.8	Georgia State
42	2.8	Minnesota
42	2.8	USC
46	2.7	Arizona State
46	2.7	Maryland*
46	2.7	Temple
46	2.7	William & Mary
46	2.7	Yale*

*Denotes schools that boycotted the U.S. News rankings

2023 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

2024 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

• Business/Corporate Law
• Clinical Law
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts/Commercial Law
• Criminal Law
• Dispute Resolution
• Environmental Law
• Health Care Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• International Law
• Legal Writing
• Tax Law
• Trial Advocacy